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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so made the boy read to me' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'William Hewer [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys unknown[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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